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Originally Posted by LowSociety
I love a good conspiracy theory and I'm trying to get behind this but, I don't see the connection between mediocre dealers and job safety. Please elaborate.
Assuming a location has low limit games, and the dealer pool for those games are mediocre and can get the job done, (separate from the big games and mixed games which players usually hand pick dealers). None of these dealers are good enough, or likely have enough ambition to try and become a floor/room manager. Therefore if the casino exec's are even considering promoting or hiring within to replace, they are less likely to do so if there is no legit candidates. Alternative is hiring from outside which cost more money and can potentially ruin what little morale may exist.
For ex.
"Who is this new guy/girl they brought in, they don't know what their doing."
While I agree that it can be laziness, there is also a comfort for working class people with familiarity (with an ok manager) even if its mediocrity all around.
The obvious arguement is that enough complaints about subpar dealers could potentially lose a manager their job, but 90% of degen poker players don't know how to go up that ladder to get the room manager canned, they usually go TO the manager and he can squash it before he/she is ever seen as mediocre him/herself. Use the incident as an opportunity to come down on the mid-management and ground level worker, and strengthen their position, especially if they aren't the one who works with the dealers day to day, that would be the floor, who is a layer of insulation. "Well it appears this floor did not notice the dealer was not doing a,b,c......"
Realize there is a large difference in the poker rooms I am familiar with b/w a floor supervisor and the room manager.